Chapter Ten

Twin Time

It had been a few days since the paint incident and I strongly believed that Lennox and Epps were simply lulling me into a false sense of security, it simply made me more paranoid. If they thought they were going to get me again they had another thing coming.

I was lost in thought as I wandered down a corridor. Sam and Mikaela were finally sent home after it was claimed they would be safe there, Bumblebee had gone with them and that made me feel very sad. He was my partner in crime, my best friend and it was the first time since I'd come here that he wasn't with me.

It made me feel weird.

I scratched the back of my head, metal on metal sounded strange, but it alleviated the uncomfortable pressure on my head. I heard a noise from behind me, random screens showed up on the middle of my eyesight, identifying a few personnel that were walking past me. I shook my head side to side to try and get the screens down but it wasn't happening.

Something buzzed in my head and I went down in pain. There was a tightening feeling on my skull, the metal felt like it was being crushed and this was not a good feeling. I cried out and rubbed my skull before holding my head in my hands.

As soon as it came, it stopped.

I sat there for a second before picking myself up, blinking confusedly. There was no one else in the corridor with me thankfully, a quick glance confirmed that. I yelped when suddenly one of the twins appeared in front of me. Somehow I'd managed to miss his approach. It really does say something when you miss a giant robot walking towards you.

"Hey there, femme." He said, bending down to look at me. I squinted at him and identified him as Sideswipe by the red colour of his armour.

"Hello." I replied, moving away from the wall and walking past him, not feeling in the mood to talk to him or his brother, and where one was, I'd come to find that the other really wasn't far behind.

"Whoa, whoa! What's the rush?" He asked, standing back up properly and walking beside me. I sighed and craned my head to look at him.

"I want to see Rachet." I frowned to myself, I didn't actually want to see him but when something painful happens it's usually a good thing to let the doctor look you over before he finds out himself, another thing I'd learnt the hard way.

Sideswipe sighed and picked me up, ignoring my squeals of protest and carried me like a small child back to the med bay. The place where I've spent most of my life. "Put me down!" I shouted, trying to wiggle my way out of his grip, this didn't work of course I was no where near as strong as he was even if I was a giant robot myself.

I couldn't wait until my next growth spurt.

He didn't take me to the med bay though, nope, he bypassed the corridor that would have taken us there and instead took another that led us down near the yard and the back doors. I generally wasn't supposed to go down here but I didn't exactly have much of a choice this time.

"Where are we going?" I asked, the weird headache thing long forgotten, curiosity replacing the pain. "Hey!" I punched him on the shoulder when he didn't reply.

He grinned down at me but still ignored me. I huffed but kept quiet, I would find out soon enough. He took me down a few more corridors until I couldn't keep up but vaguely knew that the twins bedroom was around here somewhere. I wondered why he was taking me here, but didn't think anything of it. Sideswipe was the nice twin.

"We're here." He spoke finally, I perked up from where I had been staring into space and looked at where we were. I still didn't know.

"Where is here exactly?" I asked.

He typed in a code to one of the bigger doors. "Welcome." The door slid open and I was greeted with the sight of what I assumed was the twins room. I looked around nosily, taking in every detail I could to find out more about the mysterious twins that I didn't know a whole lot about.

Unfortunately they didn't have a lot of stuff so there wasn't very much I could pick up on. "What are you doing?" I heard a growl, looking over I saw Sunstreaker lying on one of the beds but he quickly sat up as he saw me.

"Just thought we should get to know the sparkling." Sideswipe grinned.

Sunstreaker glared at him, which intimidated me enough to hide my face in Sideswipe's shoulder. I was gently placed on the floor which made me nervous. I looked up at the two, cursing my shortness in this instance. "What if I don't want to get to know the sparkling?" He asked sarcastically, knowing his brother wouldn't let him get away with anything.

"You'll do it anyway. Be nice she's only young." He patted the top of my head which caused me to glare at him and try and bat his hand away.

"Don't do that." I said, walking over to the unoccupied bed and jumping up to grab the edge and pull myself up. I heard a chuckle behind me but ignored it, instead focusing on getting up and not falling.

I managed it without any help which made me feel happy with myself. I'd definitely become a lot stronger than I was a few days ago. I made myself comfortable and sat cross-legged, looking into the amused faces of the twins.

"Hey, Sunny? Remember when you screamed like a girl when you first saw her?" Sideswipe laughed, dodging a punch from his brother. "That's probably why you don't like her now, right?"

I frowned at them both.

"That's not why." Sunstreaker growled.

"Why are you so upset all the time?" I asked, feeling that this question really needed an answer. He was always so grouchy and moody whenever I'd seen him in the past couple of days.

Sunstreaker glared at me, picking me up from the bed by the scruff of my neck and hauling me off the bed. "Ouch!" I shouted, wiggling around to try and get loose, he carried me to the door and practically threw me out. I landed with a thump, but I knew he threw me gently enough not to hurt me.

I rubbed my bottom before turning to look at the door. "Sunny! Why did you do that?" I heard Sideswipe shout, before footsteps flew to the door, Sunstreaker didn't even acknowledge his brother instead choosing to stare down at me.

I expected a glare but instead I saw intense sadness in his eyes. Obviously something had happened to him, something that made him angry and sad.

I suddenly felt bad for asking.

AN: Just wanted to say that I had major writers block on this chapter and that is why it's taken a while.